Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.

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The 1976 one-hit wonder "Afternoon Delight" helped inform an equally kitschy vocal pop group in the following decade.

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After months of public fighting through social media, Emiliano Aguilar, the eldest son of regional Mexican superstar Pepe ...

David Bowie was always a poetic songwriter, but even he had to bow down to the revolutionary brilliance of a poet like Linton Kwesi Johnson during the 1970s.